Project List... Some things have been finished and removed...

• Paint Screened Porch
• Blinds in Screened Porch
  
• Wash south front of house
• Scrub front porch -done in 2009 & 2010 - annual job
  
• Wooden fence around raised beds-- in progress
• "Walkway" outside basement door - going to be a small pergola and deck 2010? I hope!
• Finish Stepping Stone Sidewalk, and more rocks, Woodland Walk - continues...
  
• Make stone pads for Raised Bed area - maybe someday
  
• Finish Stick Arbor - had to remove part in 2010 - rebuild? Maybe...
  
• Move "box" to make 2 more raised beds - done in May 2010
  

One finished project

Here's a view of the finished "log dam" at the end of the backyard north bed. I'm happy with the results. Personally, I think it looks great! Doesn't Sum and Substance look good next to it?

Those little green bits on either side will, someday, be big Goatsbeard (Aruncus). They, however, began as late 2006 bare-root plantings. I know, I said I'd never do bare-root again. And, I probably won't.

Below is a photo of a "work in progress." It's an arbor I began about three years ago. When my neighbor's bushes (those bordering my raised bed gardens) begin to encroach, I give them a trim. Those trimmings are crucial to the progress of the arbor. Narrow honeysuckle limbs bend easily and are great to work with... hence the slow progress. But, I don't care! Check out my list to the right. I have a lot of projects in mind!

Won't this be cute next to a playhouse for grandchildren and neighboring children? (The back side might be my garden shed... or where the great big brush mower could house.
Either way, out of the sun... into the shady retreat.